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Since long, practitioners as well as academics have searched for the key on how to best steer or manage the metropolitan area. Boundaries are more often than not at the heart of the conundrum, and have opposed consolidators and free choice adepts, as well as relationalists and territorialists. After years of intense debates, it is time to reconcile positions, and explore the value of all contributions. Building on the TSPN framework from Jessop et al., this PhD dissertation explores the role of territoriality in policy networks. By studying this in cross-border metropolitan areas, I demonstrate how a sufficiently rich reading nurtured by the insights from border studies on the nature of boundaries and the production and reproduction processes of territory, can advance our understanding of the metropolitan region. In the empirical part we assess transportation policy networks in both Brussels and Luxembourg. Through Social Network Analysis and Discourse Network Analysis, I show how territoriality is indeed structuring the networks. I reveal how the institutional and meaning-giving frames that are projected upon the presence of the border are mobilised and define but not limit the playing field for the actors. I thus argue for a constructive reading of the metropolitan policy process, taking seriously both agency and territoriality.